O Rosa Bella

O Rosa Bella
Mass by Gilles Joye and Chansons by Dunstable and Bedyngham
Ensemble Dionea / Ensemble Nova Alta
Brilliant Classics 95529

Contents:

  1. Bedyngham: O Rosa bella
  2. Anon: O Rosa bella o dulz anima mia
  3. Joye: Missa super O Rosa bella - Kyrie
  4. Alan Hert (15th c.): O Rosa bella
  5. ? Ockeghem: Alius discantus super O Rosa bella
  6. Bedyngham: Gymel O Rosa bella o tu mi maria
  7. Joye: Missa super O Rosa bella - Gloria
  8. Joye: Missa super O Rosa bella - Credo
  9. Dunstable: O Rosa bella
  10. Bedyngham: O Rosa bella - Concordancie o rosa bella cum alis tribus
  11. Joye: Missa super O Rosa bella - Sanctus
  12. Joye: Missa super O Rosa bella - Agnus Dei
  13. Bedyngham: O Rosa bella - Concordancie o rosa bella cum alis tribus
  14. Bedyngham: Gymel O Rosa bella o tu mi maria

Performers: Jung Min Kim (soprano, lute), Teodora Tommasi (soprano, harp, recorder), Serena Leonardi (fiddle, recorder); David Brutti (cornet, recorder), Andrea Angeloni (trombone, tromba da tirarsi), Stefano Bellucci (trombone), Pierluigi Bastioli (trombone), Danilo Tamburo (countertenor, trombone); Andrea Gavagnin (cantus), Jonatas Monteiro (cantus), Matteo Zenatti (tenor), Enrico Maronese (tenor), Stefano Maffioletti (countertenor), Nicola di Filippo (countertenor); Claudia Caffagni (conductor for mass)

Playing time: 61'

Recording date: October 2017 (Perugia); released: 2019

Attribution of the three-part mass (from MS Trent 90, one of three on this theme in the Trent codices) to Gilles Joye (c.1420-c.1483) is relatively speculative. However, it has also been suggested that all three of those masses are by Joye.

A new recording now devoted to Joye:

Joye: Missa O Rosa bella & Chansons
Club Mediéval - Thomas Baeté
Musica Ficta 8039

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Todd M. McComb